Nail-puller



M. DIAMOND.

NAIL FULLER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 20. I918.

Patented Spt. 30, 1919.

AT OR E MEYER DIAMOND, 0F BROOKLYN, YORK.

NAIL-FULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

Application filed December 20. 1918. Serial No. 287.598.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MEYER DIAMOND, a citizen of Russia, residing in the city of New York, borou h of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and tate of New York, have 1nvented a certain new and useful Nail-Puller, of which the following is a specificatlon.

The object of my invention is to provide a nail uller which may be used wlth ease and facllity to pull a number of nalls, whose heads and upper portions extend upwardly with one movement of the puller, whereby the nails may be extracted easily and rapidly. The particular use of my 1I1V8IltlQIi is adapted to the pulling of part ally driven nails employed to secure skins or the l1ke to boards, or similar surfaces during the tanning, curving or dyeing processes, although it may be used for any suitable purose. p Features of the invention other than those adverted to will be apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

The drawings show the preferred, practical embodiment of the invention, but the form shown is to be considered as typical only of various specific forms in which the invention may be given expression.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the 1mproved nail puller when it 1s about to be used to withdraw a nail;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same;

Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional views taken on lines 33 and 41 respectively, of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

The nail puller is adapted to pull any nail '2 which projects from a piece :of leather or skin 3 secured to a board 4. This puller is provided with a handle 5 whlch 1s preferably made of wood and mounted on an iron bolt 6 which is secured in a metal housing 7 which has two converting plates 8 and 9 respectively, both of which have registering slots 10 which are flared at the extreme front, as shown at 11, so as to guide the nails 2 into these slots. Said slots are flared and shaped so as to pass about the shank of the nails, but the nall heads cannot pass through them. The upper end of the slot 10 in the part 8 is enlarged so as to form an opening 12 through which the head of a nail can pass, whereupon the nail falls into a chamber 13, which is formed by the rear wall 14, connecting the parts 8 and 9 and a slotted angle plate 15 which has a slot 16 through which the shank of nails 2 may pass when enterin the chamber 13 beneath the opening 12. he angle plate 15 is bent so as to form a receptacle, as indicated in The exterior of wall 14 of the housing 7 is provided with longitudinally extending ears 17 in which are mounted screws 18 that carry small rollers 19, so that as the puller is moved alon to extract nails, it moves easily on antiriction rollers.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, the upper part 8'is provided with two inclined shoulders 20 which, through engagement with the heads of the nails, act to hold the nails against return movement out of the slot 10 and to hold the parts 8 and 9 in proper relation. I provide a side wall 21 for the chamber 13 and I also connect the upper and lower plates 8 and 9 by suitable rivets 22. The angle plate 15 may be secured in any desirable way, as by rivets 23 which pass through corresponding openings in the angle plate 15 and bottom 9.

In view of the foregoing, the operation of my device will be readily understood. Assuming that the parts are in the position shown in Fi 1, the operator grasps the handle 5 of tlie extractor 1 and moves the extractor so that the nails 2 pass into the flared openings 11 and slots 10, whereupon they are immediately withdrawn either by the shoulders 20 or by the upper surface of the plate 8, or both. As these nails are withdrawn, one will force another up and through the slot 10 until the opening 12 is reached when the nails drop into the chamber 13. When the last row of nails is finished, and some nails still remain in the slot 10, the operator simply inclines the device so that these nails will run along the slots 10 to the opening 12 and fall into the chamber 13. The rollers 19 run over the skin 3 without injurin it and facilitate the easy manipulation of t e device. The angle plate 15 extends far enough to one side of the parts 8 and 9 and rear wall 14 tomable the operator to withdraw the nails easily.

Slight changes may be made in the structure described, such as the substitution of equivalents, without departing from the spirit or substance of the invention, the scope of which is commensurate with the appended claims.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A nail extractor embodying a slotted metal plate mounted to be moved along a surface in inclined relation thereto for the purpose of causing nails protruding from said surface, to enter the slot and be withdrawn from the surface through engagement of the inclined plate with the heads of said nails. and a receptacle positioned beneath the upper end of the slot Which terminates in an enlarged opening through which the nails, after traversing the slot, fall into the receptacle.

2. A nail extractor embodying a slotted metal plate mounted to be moved along a surface in inclined relation thereto for the purpose of causing nails protruding from said surface, to enter the slot and be withdrawn from the surface through engagement of the inclined plate with the heads of said nails, a receptacle positioned beneath the upper end of the slot which terminates in an enlarged opening through which the nails. after traversing the slot, fall into the receptacle, and a handle for manipulating the inclined plate and the receptacle.

3. A nail extractor embodying a slotted metal plate mounted to be moved along a surface in inclined relation thereto for the purpose of causing nails protruding from said surface, to enter the slot and be withdrawn from the surface through engagement of the inclined plate with the heads of said nails, a receptacle positioned beneath the upper end of the slot which terminates ln an enlarged opening through which the nails, after traversing the slot, fall into the receptacle, and means for precluding retrograde movement of the nails in the slot,

4. A nail extractor embodying a slotted metal plate mounted to be moved along a surface in inclined relation thereto for the purpose of causing nails protruding from said surface, to enter the slot and be withdrawn from the "surface through engagement of the inclined plate with the heads of said nails, a receptacle positioned beneath the upper end of the slot which terminates in an enlarged opening through .which the nails, after traversing the slot fallinto the receptacle, and rigid means for precluding retrograde movement of the nails in the slot.

5. A nail extractor embodying a metal strip, returned upon slotted converging plates, one of which is adapted to support the other for movement, allowing a surface in inclined relation thereto for the purpose of causing nails, protruding from said surface, to enter the slot and be withdrawn from the surface through engagement of the inclined plate with the heads of said nails, and a receptacle positioned between the plates and supported thereby in position beneath the upper end of the slot in the inclined plate, which slot terminates at an enlarged opening through which the nails, after traversing the slot, fall into the receptacle.

6'. A nail extractor embodying a metal strip, returned upon slotted converging.

plates, one of which is adapted to support the other for movement, allowing a surface in inclined relation thereto for the purpose of causing nails, protruding from said surface, to enter the slot and be withdrawn from the surface through engagement of the inclined plate with the heads of said nails, and a receptacle positioned between the plates and supported thereby in position beneath the upper end of the slot in the inclined plate, which slot terminates at an enlarged opening through which the nails, after traversing the slot, fall into the receptacle, in combination with means associated with the inclined plate for precluding retrograde movement of the nails in the slot.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

MEYER DIAMOND. 

